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22 March 2009

Raspberry Marlow

I love vintage cookbooks and old recipes. So I was so excited to read about the Everything Old Is New Again recipe contest over at the Domestic Muse. I recently inherited an old cookbook that belonged to my grandmother, Norge Binding of Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook. I love this cookbook! One, it is huge, two, the copyright is 1945 so it is FILLED with vintage recipes, and three, my grandmother won this book for being the top sales girl on the floor of White House Appliances in Eureka, CA. She was very proud of her accomplishment and of this cookbook.

This was my first time actually using this book because I am so afraid it is going to fall apart! It deserves to be used though and it reminds me of my grandmother and makes me wonder if she had ever tried the recipes and what she thought of them. Grandma, I made this for you! It is very rich tasting, but perfect for a spring day. My five year old thought it would be perfect in a no-bake pie with a graham cracker crust. Perhaps that will be our next experiment with the leftovers!

1. Mash the raspberries to a pulp and add them to the top of a double boiler over gently simmering water. Add the marshmallows and stir continuously until the marshmallows are melted completely.

2. Transfer the marshmallow mixture to a bowl, stir in the dates. Chill the mixture 1-2 hours.

3. Whip the whipping cream until heavy peaks form. Stir in 1/3 of the whipping cream into the chilled marshmallow/raspberry mixture to lighten it a little. Fold in the rest of the whipping cream gently.

I love old cookbooks like that. What a fun recipe. They made so many good things back then that have been lost to us. We do need to go back and make some of these. Another thing I find interesting is that I will get a great recipe from someone and they say they got it in a current magazine. Then when I go through an old cookbook I find it in there. So we are all searching for something new (old)!

That looks mad good, I love raspberry anything. I bet it would be awesome in a graham cracker crust! I used to love using my moms Better Homes and Gardens cookbook from the 50s. It's what I used to make my first cake when I was 8! :)

very cool to find old recipes I have some old British cook books also thanks for reading my blog love yours, will post pics of trip Rebecca, oh I stay home with my lil daughter also, oh and congrats on the weight loss thats awesome

This looks might similar to the recipe of my grandma's that I'm going to use for the Everything Old is New Again (diff. flavor, though)...bet my grandma would like this, too! Head on over to my site to pick up an award when you get a chance!!!

I love the old recipe book thing too. I was given a facsimile copy of the classic Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management for Christmas. It was first published in 1859 and it's an absolutely fascinating read!

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